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Lancashire born Javid is one of five sons to a bus driver of Pakistani descent and grew up in Bristol and educated at a local state comprehensive school and later the University of Exeter.
Javid joined Chase Manhattan Bank in New York immediately out of university, working mostly in South America.
Aged 25, he became the youngest vice-president in the history of the bank. He returned to London in 1997, and later joined Deutsche Bank as a director in 2000. In 2004 he became a managing director at Deutsche Bank and, one year later, global head of Emerging Markets Structuring.

KOLKATA: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly was today appointed the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), ending the suspense on who will take over the state cricket body following the death of Jagmohan Dalmiya. The announcement of Ganguly was made by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in presence of senior CAB officials and state government ministers at the state secretariat building. In another major development, Dalmiya's son Avishek was inducted as one of the two joint secretaries replacing the current incumbent Ganguly.

Veterans Affairs Canada officials felt former minister Julian Fantino’s public relations’ disasters had “intensified” what was already a glut of “bad press” that had “taken its toll” on the department’s reputation, internal documents show.
The documents are part of a secret briefing binder delivered to current Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O’Toole upon his appointment to replace Fantino in January. They highlight the degree to which officials believe bad publicity, exacerbated by Fantino’s tenure, is to blame for many of the department’s problems.

Vladimir Putin just dissolved major state media organization RIA Novosti, which has been around since 1941. In its place will be a new organization run by a TV presenter who had been embroiled in anti-gay remarks. RIA Novosti's own report characterizes the move as an effort to tighten the state's grip on the media.

The Chinese government has banned television and radio advertisements that promote expensive gifts as part of its campaign against corruption and excess.
China’s media watchdog, the State Administration of Radio, Film &Television, said encouraging viewers to splash out on watches or gold helped spread “incorrect values and create a bad social ethos.”
“The move is a response to the central authorities’ repeated calls for people to practise thrift and shun extravagance and waste,” a government spokesman told Xinhua, the state news agency.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration suggested Tuesday that peace between the Israelis and Palestinians may not come in the form of a two-state solution — a position that could represent a dramatic shift from what has been U.S. policy for more than 20 years.

NEW DELHI: The government has refused to extend the tenure of SAIL Chairman C S Verma till his superannuation -- making him the first 'Maharatna' PSU head to be denied extension during the current NDA regime. Verma was appointed SAIL Chairman and Managing Director for a 5-year term in June 2010 by the previous UPA government, but was eligible for an extension till he attained the superannuation age of 60 years in September 2019.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed British-educated political independent Rami Hamdallah as his new prime minister.
Mr. Hamdallah, a little-known academic, replaces Salam Fayyad, the chief rival to Mr. Abbas who was seen as too independent. Mr Hamdallah is seen as more pliant and will increase the president’s power.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese radio and television stations are to ban advertisements for expensive gifts such as watches, rare stamps and gold coins, the Xinhua state news agency said on Wednesday, as part of a push by the government to crack down on extravagance and waste. Such advertisements had "publicised incorrect values and helped create a bad social ethos", the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said in a release, Xinhua said. The ban comes after repeated calls from Xi Jinping, China's president-in-waiting, for a renewed fight against graft. ...